Grit dog wrote:
There are 2 schools of thought. 1 is the typical RVer school where ALL TTs need a wdh with sway control.
2 is the rest of the world that haul trailers of all shapes and sizes day in day out without much concern, especially with reasonable and moderate loads like your camper.
First off you are doing no harm by using a properly sized and adjusted WD hitch and sway control in any application where it is not recommended against by the manufacturer of the trailer (such as popups and small single-axle TT's with lightweight tongue structures).
Second off travel trailers are a special breed of trailer. RV manufacturers like to put the axles as close to the center of volume (and sometimes mass) as they can, and run the tongue weights right on the bleeding edge of unstable, so you can tow them with your half ton truck or midsize SUV. It's the TRAILER that's unstable not the truck. You could be towing it with a D8 Cat and it would still need sway control.
You are correct in that most other trailers such as landscaping trailers, enclosed utility trailers, equipment trailers, livestock trailers, are all towed day in and day out by DRW trucks with no sway control or WD, but that is because axles are biased towards the rear of the trailer's center of mass, providing adequate tongue weight, and a relatively long tongue moment in relation to the trailer's overall length.
